NBA trade deadline comes, goes with with little action. Among winners: Dwight Howard, Kevin Garnett Published February 26, 2006 What the NBA trading deadline lacked in sizzle it made up for with winners and losers: Winners New York tabloids: The latest spin to the addition of Steve Francis to an already crowded backcourt is it positions the Knicks to make an offseason move for ... Kevin Garnett. In an effort to keep his job, figure on Isiah Thomas surreptitiously feeding that rumor beast. Dwight Howard: With the trade of Francis, the future of the Magic securely has been placed in the hands of the second-year power forward. Although more than a year away from such a negotiation, Howard essentially already is assured a maximum extension. Luxury-tax recipients: With the Knicks' $123 million payroll more than $60 million above the luxury-tax threshold, that's $60 million New York will have to pay to the league. That assures each non-taxpayer, such as the Heat,at least a $2 million offseason payment. Kind of nice when a team pays you to beat them. Allen Iverson/Paul Pierce/Garnett: With so few players spending their careers in a single city, the respect shown to the trio at the deadline is admirable. If a move is made, a summer exit is a much more dignified departure. The offseason trade market: A variety of arcane salary-cap rules prevented many players from being dealt, including Jason Richardson and Troy Murphy, Warriors veterans who will lose the dreaded base-year-compensation tag on July 1. Often what can't get done in February can in July. Orlando Magic media relations: The Magic wanted nothing more from former Magic locker room lawyer Penny Hardaway than salary-cap flexibility in the Francis trade with New York. To its credit, Orlando's PR staff made that immediately clear when its trade release read the team had acquired, "the expiring contract of guard Anfernee Hardaway." Not Hardaway himself, mind you, just a soon-to-be- shredded document. Losers Damon Jones: An ill-fit from the moment he signed his four-year, $16 million offseason deal with the Cavaliers, the former Heat guard was pushed further down the rotation with Cleveland's acquisition of Ronald Murray. Heck, the Cavaliers even made deadline pushes for Orlando's Keyon Dooling, Jones' Heat backup last season, and Derek Anderson. Grant Hill: Unless he can engineer a buyout in the offseason or some time next season, the Magic swingman faces the prospect of finishing his career lost in the Magic's youth movement, with the ignominious designation of never having won a playoff series. Eric Williams, J.R. Smith, Jim Jackson: ... and all the others who had hoped to be dealt by the deadline. With Smith, it has reached the point where he and Hornets coach Byron Scott no longer are speaking. Restricted free agency: Vladimir Radmanovic, Reggie Evans and Murray all turned down deals as restricted free agents last summer from the Sonics in hopes of greater 2006 riches as unrestricted free agents. Instead, each had to forfeit Bird Rights in order to allow for deadline deals. That means none can get more than the $5 million mid-level exception from their new teams this summer. P.J. Brown: With Chris Andersen suspended, Jackson Vroman sidelined, the trade for Steven Hunter rescinded, and nothing more gained at the deadline than the dead weight of Marc Jackson, the 36-year-old former Heat forward faces the continued prospect of big minutes out of position at center in the midst of the Hornets' unlikely playoff push. Walt Frazier, Dick Barnett, Earl Monroe: Could there be any more of an insult than New York coach Larry Brown comparing the legendary Knicks backcourt to the current morass of Stephon Marbury, Jamal Crawford and Francis? 文章出處:http://0rz.net/7c164 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 果然D.Jones的合約也被認為是一個overpaid 害騎士現在也在尋找PG的答案 -- 因為喜歡籃球 不知不覺中 喜歡上了籃球的顏色 橘子的相簿 http://www.wretch.cc/album/zenwu --

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